Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague one day last week marched New Jersey's Governor-Elect, A. Harry Moore. "Mayor," said Mr. Moore, "this is your birthday and I always come to extend congratulations. Today I thought that in extending my congratulations I could make no better gift than to offer you the United States Senatorship to succeed...
Mussolini and Hitler have long advocated more babies for the sake of better wars. In Washington at a conference on Better Care for Mothers and Babies, two New Dealers shouldered the cause of better babies for similar patriotic reasons...
Meanwhile, for the third time bitter fighting was under way at Teruel. Generalissimo Franco, having decided that to recapture that city was a better psychological move than starting another offensive, laid down the heaviest artillery barrage the war has yet seen. Wave after wave of his infantry followed, finally captured El Muleton, the second of Teruel's four strategic heights to be regained by the Rightists. Sticking grimly to their lines, Leftist officers admitted that if El Caudillo had sufficient reserves, Teruel might fall to the Rightists again, pointed out that this would leave Franco just where...
...hear that American Jews are appealing in Geneva against me. Well, nothing could suit me better. I propose to ask the League to see that these people are removed from Rumania and sent to their proper homes. How and when is a question for the future...
Surgeon General Thomas Parran was unduly grave as he broke ground for a new group of U. S. Public Health Service re-search buildings near Washington fortnight ago. No one in the nation knew better than he the necessity of hurrying the construction and use of the establishment. For in his Washington office lay a heap of data, accumulated by inquiring...